Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/06/08/11:05:54
Christopher Faylor, le Fri 08 Jun 2007 10:42:49 -0400, a écrit :
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:57:20PM +0800, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 15:01:46 -0400, a ?crit :
> >>What about unix domain sockets in cygwin? It sounds like you think
> >>they aren't available.
> >
> >As I already said several times, it must work with non-cygwin
> >applications as well.
>
> A unix domain socket used on stdin/stdout works with non-cygwin
> applications.
>
> It would really help if you provided an actual use case which
> demonstrated what you are talking about.
I'm a bit tired to re-explain all of this, I've already had to do it on
other lists, it's really boring to go along all these arguments just
once more... But since you really want some details, here are more:
Brltty acts as a "braille display server": when an application not only
wants to display their usual GUI, but also braille, it can connect to
brltty for rendering braille (by sending "write" commands, and receiving
"keypress" events). Thus stdin/stdout can't work since applications may
want to keep their text GUI as it is and the initiative of establishing
the connexion comes from the application anyway, not brltty.
> Otherwise, you seem to be asking that we just trust you that brltty is
> different from most other packages in the distribution and deserves
> special dispensation.
I'm not asking so big special dispensation. Why should cygwin
applications be forced to use cygwin sockets?
Samuel
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